Reader says Vote NO on the big garage, Hudson lot half empty at 3:45 pm Saturday, 6/4
Please vote NO on the big garage. Once again we see the Hudson St lot with many open spaces on a busy Saturday. Everyone is in town, school is in session, the weather was great, and there is parking everywhere. Available parking in the CBR is the rule, not the exception even on a warm spring day before summer vacation.
Tuesday, June 21. BINDING referendum for $11,500,000 bond linked to monstrosity “Design D” even though the ballot language does not mention it. Vote NO.
If the ballot language doesn’t mention any design specifics, does that mean that if the referendum passes contracts can be signed the next day for the original 405 car design? What’s to stop that from happening?
Have any bids been submitted in connection with the actual garage construction?
11.49 and PJ Blogger post this fact every day as a new and critical BiLine
We the homeowners and business folks area the Hook if time..VOTE NO.start with a fresh sheet of facts and concepts
VOTE NO NO NO. The outgoing trio want to shove this through in their last nine days. The new Council will plan a reasonable size garage for Ridgewood, not this giganitic and overbearing Plan D.
Now that the council elections are over I am afraid people will forget to vote again.
Most of the cost of a garage is in site development and the first level. Each successive level costs significantly less. Plan D simply represents an optomization of size vs. cost/space. By eliminating a level the cost/space rises substantially. Incidentally, the largest users of the garage will be commuters……. many of whom are Ridgewood residents.
Trouble begins with peak entry and exit times on weekends when too many drivers are forcing their way into and out off that small and inaccessible area of town.its the top floors that do so much damage to that neighborhood hence..neighborhood impact first then Economics options second ..ESP when several well placed 2 floor parking decks can easily be situated at cottage place,town garage or on Hudson or other Street locations..refer to glenrock layout…therefore VOTE NO ON
JUNE 21 ..different priorities now..developers go to the back of the List.
I get your point 6:30. The problem is that when the developer projects are stalled they will file tax appeals and will win substantial reductions in their RE taxes. The burden will then shift to the residents to pick up the slack. You can’t have it both ways…..and trust me the Village will not cut its spending one dime. Vote YES to save both the Village ….and your ass on this one.
8.22 They have had all our derrières in their grinders and Its time for change.let them do their worst as they are cut and run experts after the sale and they move onto the next stupid town with a decent school system to overload..We have to fight misplaced overdevelopment impacts .starts thus June 21 VOTE NO REPEAT NO… on the Referendum for the misplaced oversized and harmful Hudson Street Garage,Never passed any reasonable smell test whichever way the winds blew against those historic church steeples there on Hudson.. representing truth and community first.